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The Mesquite Local News, one of Nevada’s newer newspapers, will cease publication and the Eureka Sentinel, one of the state’s oldest, will be folded into the The Ely Times, according to announcements by their owner, Battle Born Media.
The company founded by former Las Vegas publisher Sherm Frederick said its six newspapers serving Nevada’s rural cities will be scaled back as the uncertainties around the COVID-19 pandemic have further stressed the already-difficult local news industry.
Here’s a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Mesquite Local News is rare among newspapers in that it began its life in 2006 as an online-only publication, then added a printed version.
As for the Eureka Sentinel, although it has continued as a newspaper for central Nevada, it also is a museum that stands as a snapshot in time. The building housed the printing operations until 1960, when it was abandoned with much of its equipment, supplies and artifacts still sitting where the staff left them.
Battle Born’s changes also will affect the Sparks Tribune, where staff was trimmed, the Mineral County Independent News and Lincoln County Record, which may get a new owner.